Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
From the record
“Dexter Community House, also known as The Roundhouse, is a historic building located in Dexter, Iowa, United States. Several prominent members of the community were responsible for the fundraising and building of this community facility.”
Wikipedia article Dexter Community House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75000679- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
24 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Dexter Community House
between 2006 and 2017, burning about 314 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Debris and open burning
9
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
14 September 2013
Debris and open burning
12 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
3 April 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
2 April 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
3513 330TH TRAIL, IA
2 April 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
2359 OLD HWY 6 F-29 ROAD, IA
1 April 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
3382 WAGON RD., STUART TOWNSHIP, GUTHRIE CO., IOWA
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Dexter Community House: 4 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Dexter, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 1 tornado.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
NWS Employee reported that a vehicle was struck by lightning at exit 100 on Interstate 80, badly damaging the vehicle. There were no injuries to the 3 passengers.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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